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Middle school ELA test prep homeschool curricula under $5
INFORMATIONAL READING PASSAGES FOR OPINION WRITING: Video Games
This is a text-based opinion writing prompt. It includes 2 "articles" about the pros and cons of video games. The articles are at a 5-7 grade reading level, but younger students can understand the material with support. The articles are written to give students all the information they need to write an opinion essay. Links to additional articles and videos are provided. Also included is an opinion writing rubric aligned to the Common Core and the SBAC, a self-assessment rubric and a prompt
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Grades:
4th - 7th
SBAC PREP VOLCANOES: TEXT-BASED INFORMATIVE WRITING INTERMEDIATE
With Common Core and SBAC testing, I am now teaching text-based informative writing in my 4th grade classroom. It has been very hard to find appropriate materials to teach students how to write in a manner similar to the performance tasks. This packet is designed to allow students to practice doing text-based writing and a mini-research report. All the materials needed to do a research report, including 5 different types of texts, are included as well as a reference page of links to additiona
Grades:
4th - 8th
Complex Sentences - Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses
This product focuses on complex sentences and identifying independent and dependent clauses. There is a variety of activities for your students to practice identifying the independent and dependent clauses of a complex sentence. Your students will be challenged and learning needs will be met. It’s a comprehensive look at complex sentences and how they are different than compound sentences as well. These are great activities for the classroom for in-class work, small group work, or homework. All
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Claim, Reasons & Evidence Google Slides Lesson DISTANCE LEARNING
I created this to go with my unit on Argument Writing. Students need to be able to understand how an author makes a claim. They also need to understand the difference between reasons and evidence. I give explanations and examples of each, and I also provide 4 different examples of claims with a reason and evidence for each. For my students, I added another slide where I put a short article I found online on the left and a note taking side on the right where they need to write the claim, reasons,
Grades:
3rd - 7th
Helping and Linking Verbs - No Prep
Helping and linking verbs are an important part of learning grammar. Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish between the two for students. These activities will help you in your classroom. These would be great as an in-class activity or sent home for homework. All you have to do is print and go!These activities include labeling the verbs, filling in the blank, and writing sentences. These are comprehensive activities that will teach and challenge your students. If you like these activities,
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â The Ultimate Verb Bundle | Understanding all Verbs
Activities for Sequencing of Events - No Prep
These are activities for learning about sequencing of events and sequencing transition words is important. Students need to be able to understand which transition words go where and how to use them. Students will have a full comprehensive review of how to put events in sequential order. This will help and challenge your students. My students have used these activities and have helped them immensely. I know this will help your students as well. All you have to do is print and go!These activities
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Find Context Clues in Nonfiction 5 Types of Context Clues with Easel Pages
Do you need a resource that has a variety of ways students can practice identifying and finding context clues in by reading text, practice pages, task cards, and writing for your back to school materials? If you do, this one has a lot of variety. It's a great supplement to online district resources that might not have this kind of variety and a springboard for further research for science themes.Finding context clues in text is a challenge for many students including my ESL students. I designed
Grades:
4th - 6th
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Pronouns and their Antecedents - No Prep
Understanding pronouns and their antecedents is another important area of learning in the classroom. These activities will give your students a variety of ways to learning this. It will challenge and teach your students. They will be great for in-class work or for homework. All you have to do is print and go!These activities include finding the pronoun and the antecedent and writing in their own pronoun to complete each sentence that agrees with the antecedent. If you like this resource, ple
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Pronoun Case {Subject, Object, Possessive} Foldable, PowerPoint, Chart, and Quiz
Pronoun case {subjective, objective, and possessive} is HUGE in sixth grade. However, you could easily use this file as a preview or review of pronoun case. This file contains:
***A PowerPoint of pronoun case with examples
***A foldable for students' interactive journals or notes WITH a blank version, a Cloze Notes version, an answer key, and teacher tips
***A classification chart that you can use for ANY mentor text, short story, poem, or class novel
***A quiz over pronoun case WITH an answe
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Grades:
5th - 7th
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Subject-Verb Agreement - No Prep
Subject-Verb Agreement, its an important part of learning grammar. These activities will help students to recognize subject-verb agreement and write it correctly. All you have to do is print and go!The first activity is choosing which verb best completes each sentence. Another activity is rewriting sentences. Students will fix the sentences and write them correctly. The next two activities is again choosing the correct form of the verb, writing their own sentences and identifying if the sub
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Also included in:Â The Ultimate Verb Bundle | Understanding all Verbs
ELA PRONOUNS Subject/Object, Possessive, & Reflexive/Intensive PowerPoint PPT
This is a 24-slide PowerPoint presentation to introduce pronouns to students. It covers subject/object, possessive, and reflexive/intensive pronouns.The presentation is editable to delete slides for which your students don't need instruction.The presentation includes:1) an overview of subject pronouns (with examples);2) an overview of object pronouns (with examples);3) practice identifying subject and object pronouns (with answers);4) an overview of possessive pronouns (with examples);5) practi
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Also included in:Â ELA PRONOUNS Subj/Obj, Possessive, Reflexive/Intensive PPT, 3 Wkshts, Assess
Sequencing: Understanding Sequence of Events - No Prep
Sequencing and understanding the sequencing of events is a common core standard. Do your students need to understand or practice putting sentences or stories into the correct sequence? Or learning about transitional words or phrases, these activities are for you! These activities are comprehensive and challenging for your students. It’s always important to challenge students so that they continue to learn and be better. All you have to do is print and go!These activities range from reading para
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Elie Wiesel Nobel Prize Speech ~ Night Pre-reading activity
Night is the heart wrenching first hand account of Elie Wiesel's internment in the Auschwitz Camp during the Holocaust. In order to truly lead into the novel, it is important to impress upon students that Elie Wiesel spent his life devoted to reversing racism around the globe. Reading his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech will do just that. To accommodate scaffolding, I have included one version that caters to teaching persuasion and rhetorical analysis and a second that asks questions pertaining to
Grades:
7th - 9th, Higher Education
Sixth (6th) Grade Reading Diagnostic Assessment (CCSS / TEKS) Reading level test
This is a diagnostic reading assessment appropriate for use with sixth grade aged children. It is aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and to the required reading skills identified by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The assessment includes reading and response tasks based on reading literature, reading informational texts, and reading argumentative or persuasive texts. Moving beyond skills taught in the lower grades, this assessment emphasizes more complex comprehen
Grades:
5th - 7th
Using Commas in Sentences, Dates, and Addresses - No Prep
These activities focus on using commas correctly. Not only do commas need to be used correctly in sentences, but they belong in dates and addresses as well. These activities will help and challenge your students to correctly identify where the commas need to go and how to use commas. You can use them as homework, in-class work, or even working with small groups. All you have to do is print and go!These will focus on using commas after introductory clauses, items in a series, to separate ad
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Grades:
4th - 6th
ELA SUBJECTS & PREDICATES Simple, Complete, & Compound PowerPoint PPT
This is a 29-slide PowerPoint presentation on subjects and predicates. It can be used in two separate teaching sessions (one session for subjects and another for predicates), or it can be used as review of both subjects and predicates. If you prefer, I have separate PPT presentations for subjects and predicates that cover the same concepts.
The presentation includes:
1) an overview of subjects;
2) an overview of simple, complete, and compound subjects (with examples and independent practic
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
7th Grade Reading Diagnostic Assessment (CCSS / TEKS) Reading level test
This is a diagnostic reading assessment appropriate for use with 7th grade aged children. It is aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and to the required reading skills identified by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). The assessment includes reading and response tasks based on reading literature, reading informational texts, and reading argumentative or persuasive texts. Moving beyond skills taught in the lower grades, this assessment emphasizes more complex comprehensi
Grades:
6th - 8th
ELA DOUBLE NEGATIVES Avoiding Errors in Construction PowerPoint PPT
This is a 12-slide PowerPoint presentation to introduce the special usage problem of DOUBLE NEGATIVES, an error in sentence construction.
The presentation includes:
1) overview of negatives and errors involving use of double negatives;
2) explicit instruction and guided practice on 2 ways to fix double negatives; and
3) practice exercises to identify and correct double negatives (with answers).
Other purchase options:
1) I am posting individual practice activities (worksheets) for this con
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
ELA TITLES Underlining / Italicizing & Quotation Marks PowerPoint PPT
PLEASE NOTE: I'm not sure why, but the thumbnail image above does not accurately illustrate the formatting of this presentation. I am much more OCD than the image depicts! For a more accurate view, please download the preview!
This is a 16-slide PowerPoint presentation to introduce correct writing of major titles (books, movies, albums, magazines / newspapers, TV shows, works of art, and plays) and minor titles (book and movie chapters, song titles, magazine / newspaper articles, TV episodes
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
ELA PREPOSITIONS Objects of & Prepositional Phrases PowerPoint PPT
This is a 14-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers prepositions, objects of prepositions, prepositional phrases, and preposition etiquette.The presentation includes:1) an overview of prepositions;2) a preposition song incorporating 36 of the most commonly used prepositions;3) practice identifying prepositions in sentences (with answers);4) an overview of objects of prepositions and practice identifying them in sentences (with answers);5) an overview of prepositional phrases and practice iden
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Types of Pronouns Stations/Centers Activity {Common Core Aligned}
Do your students love working in stations or centers? Mine do! This activity is a WONDERFUL way to have small groups target specific pronoun types. I used it for a formal evaluation by administration and got rave review, and best of all, my students asked me when we could do it again!
You can use this with its companion lesson, Types of Pronouns Foldable in my store (or with your own direct instruction!).
This file contains:
***A Teacher tip sheet
***A station over identifying pronouns (
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Grades:
5th - 7th
Prepositional Phrases modifying Adjectives and Adverbs
Prepositional phrases are difficult to learn and understand. So I have created these activities to help my students and they can help you too!These activities include identifying prepositional phrases and how they are used to modify adjectives and adverbs. Then one of my favorites is writing sentences with prepositional phrases. These have helped my class and it will help yours!If you like these activities, please see my TpT page for more!Also, please leave a comment on my TpT page and you can
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Also included in:Â Prepositions, Adjective, Adverb, Comparative and Superlative Bundle
SBAC PREP ENERGY: TEXT-BASED INFORMATIVE WRITING INTERMEDIATE
With Common Core and SBAC testing, I am now teaching text-based informative writing in my 4th grade classroom. It has been very hard to find appropriate materials to teach students how to write in a manner similar to the performance tasks. This packet is designed to allow students to practice doing text-based writing and a mini-research report. All the materials needed to do a research report, including eleven different pages of research with a variety of different types of texts, are includ
Grades:
4th - 8th
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